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Response from the Production Test Department regarding experience with 14-tooth axles on a New Phantom Chassis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 66\4\  scan0325
Date  14th October 1925
  
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Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} [strikethrough]
c Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Mx. {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} Mx {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} 6/T14.10.25.

re Chassis No.29-LC.
With reference to your Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 23/M13.10.25 with enclosures, this is a matter which we prefer should be replied to by Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

We in the Production Test Dept. have had no experience of New Phantom(Codename for PHANTOM I) Chassis fitted with 14-tooth axles.


Rns

[STAMP: RECEIVED OCT 14 1925]

Mx. {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} [initials]
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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